Type hints, variable annotation, and forcing runtime type checks — everything you need to know. Python is a dynamically typed language — I’m sure you know that. This makes it easy and fun for beginners, as there’s no need to think about data types. Sti... [...Read more...]

Send stylized emails with attachments with Python. To multiple recipients. Sending emails through programming languages like Python has many use cases. For example, you might want to manage a mailing list without paying monthly fees, or use it to notif... [...Read more...]

Make a full CRUD REST API with Python. Did I mention it’s database driven? REST APIs are everywhere around us and are used to build good-quality software. In data science, they are used to deploy machine learning models to production, so no, you can’t ... [...Read more...]

How to utilize the built-in database for data storage and manipulation Databases are a great, secure, and reliable way to store data. All major relational databases have something in common — SQL — a language to manipulate databases, tables, and data. ... [...Read more...]

Master the more advanced topics in no-time There’s no doubt that Python decorators are one of the more advanced and tougher-to-understand programming concepts. This doesn’t mean you should avoid learning them — as you encounter them in production code ... [...Read more...]

Master one of the essential tools for programming and data science. Making your code production-ready is not an easy task. There are so many things to consider, one of them being able to monitor the application’s flow. That’s where logging comes in — a... [...Read more...]

Working with JSON data is inevitable — let’s learn it properly. JSON data is everywhere. It still isn’t the most widely used data format among data scientists, as datasets are stored either in CSVs or in databases. Today you’ll learn how to deal with J... [...Read more...]

Make your code more elegant with arguments and keyword arguments If you’ve ever stumbled upon *args and **kwargs after looking at a function definition and wondered what the heck those are, you’re at the right place. Today we’ll go through both and sho... [...Read more...]

You don’t know what you don’t know. Despite being one of the simplest programming languages out there, Python still has a vast variety of inbuilt functions that are less known to broader audiences — mostly because they aren’t covered in the majority of... [...Read more...]

Cleaner Code and Fewer Loops? Count me in. As one of the most popular languages of the 21st century, Python certainly has a lot of interesting functions worth exploring and studying in-depth. Three of those will be covered today, each theoretically and... [...Read more...]